ΝΑΜΑΤΑ ΓΛΥΚΥΡΡΟΙΑ: Photini the Samaritan Woman and her martyred sisters: Anatole, Phota, Photis, Paraskevi, & Kyriaki

37 ὁ δὲ εἶπεν, ὁ ποιήσας τὸ ἔλεος μετ' αὐτοῦ. εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ ἰησοῦς, πορεύου καὶ σὺ ποίει ὁμοίως.
38 ἐν δὲ τῷ πορεύεσθαι αὐτοὺς αὐτὸς εἰσῆλθεν εἰς κώμην τινά: γυνὴ δέ τις ὀνόματι μάρθα ὑπεδέξατο αὐτόν.
39 καὶ τῇδε ἦν ἀδελφὴ καλουμένη μαριάμ, [ἣ] καὶ παρακαθεσθεῖσα πρὸς τοὺς πόδας τοῦ κυρίου ἤκουεν τὸν λόγον αὐτοῦ.
40 ἡ δὲ μάρθα περιεσπᾶτο περὶ πολλὴν διακονίαν: ἐπιστᾶσα δὲ εἶπεν, κύριε, οὐ μέλει σοι ὅτι ἡ ἀδελφή μου μόνην με κατέλιπεν διακονεῖν; εἰπὲ οὖν αὐτῇ ἵνα μοι συναντιλάβηται.
41 ἀποκριθεὶς δὲ εἶπεν αὐτῇ ὁ κύριος, μάρθα μάρθα, μεριμνᾷς καὶ θορυβάζῃ περὶ πολλά,
42 ἑνὸς δέ ἐστιν χρεία: μαριὰμ γὰρ τὴν ἀγαθὴν μερίδα ἐξελέξατο ἥτις οὐκ ἀφαιρεθήσεται αὐτῆς.

Κυριακή 27 Φεβρουαρίου 2011

Photini the Samaritan Woman and her martyred sisters: Anatole, Phota, Photis, Paraskevi, & Kyriaki

Reading from the Synaxarion:

Saint Photine was the Samaritan Woman who encountered Christ our
Saviour at Jacob's Well (John 4:1-42). Afterwards she laboured in the
spread of the Gospel in various places, and finally received the crown
of martyrdom in Rome with her two sons and five sisters, during the
persecutions under the Emperor Nero.

Apolytikion in the Third Tone
All illumined by the Holy Spirit, thou didst drink with great and
ardent longing of the waters Christ Saviour gave unto thee; and with the
streams of salvation wast thou refreshed, which thou abundantly gavest to
those athirst. O Great Martyr and true peer of Apostles, Photine,
entreat Christ God to grant great mercy unto us.

Kontakion in the Third Tone
Photine the glorious, the crown and glory of the Martyrs, hath this day
ascended to the shining mansions of Heaven, and she calleth all together
to sing her praises, that they might be recompensed with her
hallowed graces. Let us all with faith and longing extol her gladly in
hymns of triumph and joy.